51.   Communications policy also may be reshaped as Democrat Clinton fills vacancies at the FCC.

52.   Companies complain that the tight labor market is now hampering growth, because they can no longer fill vacancies.

53.   Congress should act expeditiously to confirm him early this year and to reconsider its overall negligence in filling vacancies on the federal bench.

54.   Contra Costa County officials say they have a chronic problem filling technical vacancies because public-sector salaries and benefits lag far behind those offered in Silicon Valley.

55.   Current and future vacancies will be filled internally unless specialist recruitment is required, it said.

56.   Custodians in those districts would step aside and fill vacancies elsewhere.

57.   Deployments have also forced employers large and small to scramble to fill vacancies created when reservists leave, often at a cost.

58.   Democrat Rep. Ed McKechnie of Pittsburg argued that the governor lacks legal authority to fill the vacancy and should have waited for the Legislature to provide it next year.

59.   Democrats said that while they were not seeking revenge, Bush should not be allowed to fill the vacancies with overly conservative nominees.

60.   Deployments have forced employers to scramble to fill vacancies created when reservists leave, often at a cost.